Cymulate for Security Operations offers automated exposure validation, validated exposure prioritization, daily threat feed updates, automated mitigation, and custom detection rule creation. These features enable SecOps teams to proactively validate threats, optimize controls, and accelerate detection engineering for stronger defenses.
Cymulate automates threat validation by running production-safe attack simulations that cover the full MITRE ATT&CK framework. This allows SecOps teams to continuously test their defenses against real-world threats and receive actionable insights for remediation.
Validated exposure prioritization in Cymulate aggregates threat exposures and correlates them with prevention and detection data, threat intelligence, and business context. This approach calculates true risk scores, enabling SecOps teams to focus on the most exploitable and impactful vulnerabilities.
Cymulate enables SecOps teams to build and deploy virtual patches by integrating with security controls and automating actionable threat mitigation. This helps optimize defenses for known exposures without waiting for traditional patch cycles.
The daily threat feed in Cymulate provides automated validation and testing of the latest threats with daily updates of new attack scenarios. This ensures that SecOps teams are always testing against the most current threat landscape.
Cymulate allows SecOps teams to build custom detection rules to fine-tune detection logic, maximize threat resilience, and reduce false positives. This capability helps teams quickly adapt to new threats and optimize their SIEM, EDR, and XDR coverage.
Cymulate integrates with a wide range of security technologies, including Akamai Guardicore (network security), AWS GuardDuty (cloud security), BlackBerry Cylance OPTICS, Carbon Black EDR, Check Point CloudGuard, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale (SIEM), and Cybereason. For a full list, visit the Partnerships and Integrations page.
Cymulate helps maintain threat resilience by identifying weaknesses that were previously strengths. This ongoing validation ensures that security controls remain effective as the threat landscape evolves.
Cymulate maximizes MITRE ATT&CK coverage with automation and AI that builds SIEM, EDR, and XDR rules for identified gaps. This enables faster validation and tuning for new threats, reducing the time to deploy new detection logic from hours to minutes.
CTEM (Continuous Threat Exposure Management) in Cymulate enables collaboration across vulnerability management, red teams, and IT, supporting a unified approach to continuous threat exposure management and proactive security posture improvement.
Cymulate is designed for SecOps teams, SOC managers, CISOs, red teams, and vulnerability management teams across industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, and more. It is suitable for organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises.
SecOps teams using Cymulate typically see a 30% increase in threat prevention, a 52% reduction in critical and high exposures, and a 60% increase in team efficiency. These metrics are based on averages reported by Cymulate customers.
Cymulate enables SecOps teams to evolve from reactive threat response to proactive exposure management by automating validation, optimizing controls, and providing evidence-based insights for continuous improvement.
Cymulate addresses overwhelming threat volumes, lack of visibility, unclear prioritization, operational inefficiencies, fragmented tools, cloud complexity, and communication barriers by providing a unified, automated platform for exposure validation and management.
Cymulate automates manual processes, reduces the time to validate new threats from days to hours, and enables teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than repetitive tasks, resulting in a reported 60% increase in efficiency.
Cymulate uses AI-powered optimization and validated exposure scoring to rank vulnerabilities based on exploitability, business context, and threat intelligence, ensuring that remediation efforts are focused on the most critical risks.
Cymulate fosters collaboration by sharing data and insights across SecOps, vulnerability management, red teams, and IT, supporting a unified approach to continuous threat exposure management (CTEM).
Customers consistently praise Cymulate's intuitive design and ease of use. For example, a Security Consultant described it as "easy to use and very easy to understand," while a Senior Security Analyst highlighted the accessible support and user-friendly dashboard. These testimonials reflect Cymulate's focus on seamless user experience and rapid deployment.
Yes. For example, a utility organization described Cymulate as "best-in-class for automated security validation," and a healthcare CISO reported improved incident response skills and prioritized remediation. Case studies are available on the Cymulate Customers page.
Cymulate is designed for rapid implementation. Customers report that deployment is fast and straightforward, with the ability to start running simulations almost immediately. The platform supports agentless mode, requiring minimal resources and no complex configurations.
Cymulate provides comprehensive support, including email and chat support, webinars, e-books, a knowledge base, and dedicated resources for SecOps teams and SOC managers. More information is available on the SecOps page.
Getting started with Cymulate is simple due to its agentless deployment, intuitive interface, and minimal resource requirements. Customers can quickly integrate Cymulate with existing technologies and begin validating threats with just a few clicks.
Yes, Cymulate provides dedicated resources for CISOs, SecOps teams, red teams, and vulnerability management teams. These resources address the unique challenges and objectives of each role. Explore the SecOps resource page for more details.
Cymulate tailors its platform to the needs of CISOs (risk posture and metrics), SecOps (control optimization and incident response), red teams (offensive testing automation), and vulnerability management teams (exposure prioritization). Each role receives targeted insights and workflows.
Cymulate uses a subscription-based pricing model tailored to each organization's needs. Pricing depends on the chosen package, number of assets, and scenarios selected for simulation. For a personalized quote, you can schedule a demo with Cymulate's team.
Cymulate stands out with its unified platform that integrates breach and attack simulation (BAS), continuous automated red teaming (CART), and exposure analytics. It offers continuous innovation, the industry's largest attack simulation library, and AI-powered optimization. These strengths differentiate Cymulate from competitors like AttackIQ, Mandiant Security Validation, Pentera, Picus Security, SafeBreach, Scythe, and NetSPI. For detailed comparisons, visit the Why Cymulate page.
Cymulate provides a more comprehensive exposure validation platform, continuous threat validation, AI-powered remediation prioritization, and ease of use. It is recognized for measurable outcomes such as a 52% reduction in critical exposures and a 60% increase in team efficiency, as well as continuous innovation and daily threat intelligence updates.
SecOps teams should consider Cymulate for its unified platform, continuous threat validation, actionable insights, ease of use, and proven results. Customers report significant improvements in threat prevention, operational efficiency, and risk reduction. Cymulate is also recognized as a market leader by Gartner and G2.
Cymulate holds SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, and CSA STAR Level 1 certifications. These attest to Cymulate's commitment to security, privacy, and compliance with industry standards. For more details, visit the Security at Cymulate page.
Cymulate's services are hosted in secure AWS data centers with strong physical security, encryption for data in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256), and high availability. The platform is developed using a secure SDLC, with continuous vulnerability scanning and annual third-party penetration tests. Cymulate is also GDPR-compliant and has a dedicated privacy and security team.
Yes, Cymulate incorporates data protection by design and maintains GDPR compliance. The company has a dedicated Data Protection Officer (DPO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) overseeing privacy and security practices.
Cymulate was founded in 2016 and has a presence in 8 global locations, serving customers in over 50 countries. The company has more than 1,000 customers worldwide.
Cymulate's mission is to revolutionize how companies approach cybersecurity by fostering a proactive stance against threats. The company empowers organizations to manage their security posture effectively and improve resilience through continuous threat exposure management.
Cymulate updates its SaaS platform every two weeks with new features, such as AI-powered SIEM rule mapping and advanced exposure prioritization, ensuring customers always have access to the latest capabilities and threat intelligence.
Build exposure-informed defenses with continuous security validation, faster remediation, stronger threat detection and measurable cyber resilience.
67%
of breaches go unidentified by internal security teams
Source: ibm
48 hours
average to manually validate new threats against controls
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32 days
median time to fully remediate edge-device vulnerabilities
Source: VERIZON
Security operations rely on the Cymulate Platform for automation and insights to validate threat exposure and proactively build resilience through control optimization, virtual patching and faster, more efficient detection engineering.
AI-Powered Security Validation and Detection Engineering
Cymulate Vero AI acts as an intelligent partner for SecOps teams, helping them continuously validate their security posture and focus on the risks that matter most. It uses emerging threats, environmental context and real exposure risk to help teams determine what to test, prioritize what to fix and communicate results to the right stakeholders in language they can act on.
By combining attack simulation with AI-driven analysis from Vero AI, Cymulate helps SecOps and SOC teams turn validation insights into exposure-informed defenses. With Cymulate Detection Studio, teams can tune and expand detection coverage against real attack scenarios at scale.
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Automate detection engineering with AI-powered attack simulations to close gaps, cut false positives, and stop threats faster.
Cymulate Detection Studio automates SIEM rule validation and detection tuning against real-world attacks.
Detection drift breaks SIEM rules over time. Learn how continuous validation uncovers gaps before attackers do.
SecOps security validation is the continuous process of testing and verifying that your security controls can prevent, detect and respond to real-world threats. Rather than relying on assumptions or point-in-time assessments, security validation uses automated attack simulations to measure control effectiveness, identify exploitable exposures and provide evidence-based recommendations for improvement. Cymulate enables SecOps teams to continuously prove, prioritize and adapt defenses through an automated, closed-loop process.
SOC teams can improve detection coverage by continuously testing detections against real attack techniques, identifying gaps and validating new detection rules before attackers exploit them. Cymulate helps teams map SIEM rules to attack scenarios, test emerging threats, validate detection effectiveness and automate detection engineering workflows. This allows organizations to strengthen coverage across SIEM, EDR and XDR platforms while reducing manual effort.
Cymulate helps organizations operationalize CTEM by creating a continuous validate → fix → prove cycle. The platform identifies exploitable exposures, prioritizes remediation based on actual risk, validates mitigation effectiveness and continuously retests controls to measure improvement. By unifying security, vulnerability management and operations teams around validated exposure data, Cymulate enables a repeatable CTEM program focused on reducing real-world risk.
Attack simulation helps SOC teams understand how their security controls perform against real-world threats without waiting for an actual attack. By safely emulating adversary techniques, teams can validate prevention and detection capabilities, uncover security gaps, test response workflows and measure the effectiveness of security investments. Cymulate enables SOC teams to continuously assess defenses, improve detections, accelerate remediation and demonstrate measurable improvements in security resilience.
Bi-annual pen tests are not enough. Security validation should be continuous to keep pace with evolving threats and infrastructure changes. This ensures your defenses are always aligned with real-world threats and operational changes.
Cymulate is designed to empower blue teams without requiring red team resources. Cymulate continuously tests the effectiveness of critical security controls against a full range of simulated attack types and methods. The platform also provides built-in and automated remediation guidance, helping blue teams close detection and response gaps fast. This gives blue teams a safe, repeatable and automated way to test their defenses without needing to manually simulate full adversary campaigns .
Cymulate enables a streamlined, prioritized approach to detection engineering, accelerating rule development, reducing false positives and enhancing coverage across the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework.
Yes, Cymulate is 100% safe to use in production. The platform is built for non-disruptive, real-world, production-safe simulations.
